Elvington airshow 2000
Elvington 2000….another airshow I can’t really remember much about but I’ll bang the photos up even though they are terrible! Seems I got to watch a display from 2 x Mirage F1s, bet that was awesome but I cannot bloody remember any of it! Also there was a Hurricane in a fetching night fighter black. […]
Elvington 2001 (AKA Great Yorkshire Airshow)
I have very vague memories of this airshow. It was one of the first outings for my new Canon 35mm film SLR with it’s 75 – 300mm zoom lens which I thought was the bees’ knees until I whipped it out in front of geeks who wouldn’t remove a lens cap off anything smaller that […]
Elvington 2004
23 August 2004 2004…the year I got my first DSLR. I’d been diagnosed with cancer earlier in the year and during treatment decided to cheer myself up by banging a Canon 300D and on my credit card (£724.99) after seeing it in an advert. I hadn’t even realised you could get digital SLRs before then! […]
RIAT 2009
Having done my first Royal International Air Tattoo back in 2006 and been impressed at the scale of it I’m surprised it took me so long to make a return visit. I have a feeling I may have considered 2008 but decided against it and as luck would have it the airshow was cancelled that […]
RIAT 2006 – Sunday 16th July
My first trip to the Royal International Air Tattoo! Myself and good friend Chris decided to head down to Gloucestershire to see one of the world’s biggest military airshows for the first time. We got digs in a B&B which must not have been near any pubs as we were stuck for food. The hosts […]